“Truly a great book, and clearly Carhart’s best to date – this is splendid military history, highly recommended”

---Major General (ret.) Robert H. Scales, Ph.D., author of The Iraq War and Commandant, U.S. Army War College 1997-2000

About Tom Carhart:

Tom Carhart has been a lawyer and a historian
for the Department of the Army in Washington, D.C.
He is a graduate of West Point, a twice-wounded Vietnam veteran, and has earned
a law degree from University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in American and military
history from Princeton University. He is the author of five books of military history and adjunct professor of
history at University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He lives with
his family in Massachusetts.

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Description of SACRED TIES

This is the gripping story of six members of West Point’s graduating class of 1861, including George Armstrong Custer, who were close personal friends at the academy. Three served on each side in the Civil War, in which two were killed and four were raised to general’s rank while only in their twenties. And their bond of brotherhood formed in the halls of West Point was put to the ultimate test when they faced each other in the bloody crucible of battle.